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Sub-county. Dagoretti. Time zone. UTC+3. Riruta, also known as Riruta Satellite, is a settlement in the Dagoretti area of Nairobi. It is approximately 9.4 kilometres (5.8 mi) west of the central business district of Nairobi. [1][2][3] PC Kinyanjui Technical Training Institute, a public, technical institute is located in Riruta. [4] Riruta Ward ...
The Luigi Broglio Space Center (BSC) located near Malindi, Kenya, is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) Spaceport. It was named after its founder and Italian space pioneer Luigi Broglio. [ 1 ] Developed in the 1960s through a partnership between the Sapienza University of Rome 's Aerospace Research Centre and the National Aeronautics and Space ...
The TAIFA-1 satellite is an earth observation 3U CubeSat, and was launched on 14 April 2023 [4] together with Exolaunch aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9. It is the first satellite launched by KSA that was purely developed by Kenyan engineers with training provided by EnduroSat. [5] [4] The word "taifa" is Swahili meaning "one nation". [6]
Kibera (Kinubi: Forest or Jungle[ 1 ]) is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) from the city centre. [ 2 ] Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census reports Kibera's population as 170,070, contrary to previous ...
Nairobi joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2010. Nairobi was founded in 1899 by colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda - Kenya Railway. It was favoured by the authorities as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, and adequate water supply. [10]
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, [ 12 ] Kenya is the 28th-most-populous country in the world [ 7 ] and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second-largest city ...
Gachie is a locality in Kihara ward, Kiambaa constituency, Kiambu county. It is located in Kenya 's Kiambu County approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) from the Nairobi CBD. It neighbors the affluent Nyari Estate. Gachie is named after one of its first settlers and a son of Kihara. Being within The Nairobi outskirts ,Gachie offers more than meets ...
State House in Nairobi stands on a 3-square-kilometre (300 ha; 740-acre) piece of land. It is a 10-minute drive from the city centre. Apart from Nairobi, there are other State Houses in Mombasa and Nakuru. [1] There are state lodges in Eldoret, Sagana, Kisumu, Kakamega, Kitale, Rumuruti, Cheran'gany and Kisii. They are scattered around the ...